A former top official at the Environmental Protection Agency alleges that the embattled administrator has routinely taken "unethical and potentially illegal actions," including directing staffers to book unnecessarily pricey hotel rooms, dishing out thousands of taxpayer dollars on heavily armed security and taking non-government-contracted flights to earn him frequent flier miles.

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Kevin Chmielewski, the EPA's deputy chief of staff and a former staffer on President Trump's campaign, told Democratic lawmakers investigating Pruitt's questionable conduct that working under him has been like a "nightmare."

"Every time you tried to find out about something you got in trouble," Chmielewski told the lawmakers, according to a letter they sent to Pruitt and Trump on Thursday.

The lawmakers demanded a laundry list of documents from the EPA that Chmielewski says will corroborate his harsh allegations, as calls for Pruitt's resignation continue to mount.

Chmielewski says he was placed on unpaid leave after he refused to approve a first-class return flight from Morocco for one of Pruitt's most loyal aides.

For instance, Chiemelewski claims Pruitt used the "guise of security" to have his security detail purchase bulletproof vests and weapons.

Kevin Chmielewski speaks with then-presidential candidate Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Berlin, Md., on April 20, 2016. (WBOC)

Pruitt also exceeded the $5,000 allowed by law to decorate his office in order to refurbish an antique desk, buy a standing desk and pay leases for art from the Smithsonian Museum, according to Chiemelewski.

Furthermore, Pruitt refused to stay at State Department-approved hotels during overseas trips that already had security in place, Chiemelewski said. Instead, Pruitt would direct his staff to book rooms at more extravagant hotels, where he would hire pricey private security firms to guard him, according to Chiemelewski.

Pruitt would instruct his aides to find him official business in places he wanted to travel, as opposed to places he needed to visit, Chiemelewski said. When he flew there, Pruitt would make sure that staffers booked seats on Delta flights because he wanted to accrue more frequent flier miles, according to Chiemelewski.

Chiemelewski disputed Pruitt's claim that he wasn't aware of a number of controversial salary bumps for favored aides, saying that those raises were "100% Pruitt himself."

Pruitt has come under fire for reassigning staffers to cover duties that aren't necessarily in their job descriptions, including making them work on his unusually beefed-up security team.

Chiemelewski echoed those claims and added that Pruitt also used the EPA's scheduling director as his "personal real estate representative" for the impossibly affordable $50 a night condo that he rented from an oil lobbyist.

Jahan Wilcox, a spokesman for the EPA, declined to comment on Chiemelewski's claims.

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"We will respond to Members of Congress through the proper channel," Wilcox told the Daily News.

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Defenders of Pruitt claim his unprecedented spending is justified because of threats against him and his family. But a group of Democratic senators who obtained a security assessment compiled by the EPA said earlier this week that they found no credible or direct threats against Pruitt.

Pruitt's dizzying numbers of scandals has led to bipartisan calls for his ouster.

But President Trump has stood by Pruitt, claiming that he's doing a "great" job under "siege." Multiple reports suggest that Trump is keeping Pruitt on because he's very happy about his record of reversing Obama-era legislation combating climate change.

Chiemelewski, who worked on Trump's 2016 campaign, said his allegations have nothing to do with partisanship, as he continues to express "deep loyalty to the President and Vice President," according to the lawmakers.

"(Chiemelewski) came forward," the lawmakers wrote, "because, as he said, 'right is right, and wrong is wrong.'"